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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rez Exelon" data-source="post: 3374339" data-attributes="member: 5800">Did they pay for all the tea in the Harbor --- I've never seen that. I know that the British attempted to extort payment by passing the 1774 Intolerable Act but I don't know if it got paid in the end. But hey, lots of people right now don't see the footage of people going in and cleaning the streets, picking up wreckage, crowd funding medical for the people injured extrajudicially by police. Our system is rigged and has been rigged for a long time. If a system is designed to incarcerate a group, and then that group is incarcerated at at higher percent than others, looking at the results of that cannot rationally be used as justification for the implementation of the system. That'd be like if meth dealers looked at a study of users and said "Gosh, these people are addicted at higher rates than everyone else". Well duh! It'd be because meth is addictive. The system is designed to turn users into addicts, just as many of the institutions in the US are designed to create second and third classes of citizens and lock them up or fine them into servitude. Look back at Ferguson --- one of the things that came out of investigating the Ferguson PD was how they specifically targeted black and brown areas, wrote tickets more often, levied fines more often. And if people couldn't come to defend themselves, they'd fine them to creating a debtors class. But I'm sure someone on here can tell me how that somehow isn't right.</blockquote>

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